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OOOPS. ROUGH DAY in MAGAtVille. Sen Thom Tillis (R-NC) blocks DHS nominees, AND 5 R's vote against Trump's "war powers."
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Trump lashed out at five Republican senators who voted to rein in his power to wage military strikes on Venezuela.
"Republicans should be ashamed of the Senators that just voted with Democrats in attempting to take away our Powers to fight and defend the United States of America," Trump ranted after the Senate moved a War Powers resolution forward on Thursday.
"Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski, Rand Paul, Josh Hawley, and Todd Young should never be elected to office again," he insisted. This Vote greatly hampers American Self Defense and National Security, impeding the President's Authority as Commander in Chief. In any event, and despite their 'stupidity,' the War Powers Act is Unconstitutional, totally violating Article II of the Constitution, as all Presidents, and their Departments of Justice, have determined before me. Nevertheless, a more important Senate Vote will be taking place next week on this very subject."
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-war-powers-resolution/
Trump lashed out at five Republican senators who voted to rein in his power to wage military strikes on Venezuela.
"Republicans should be ashamed of the Senators that just voted with Democrats in attempting to take away our Powers to fight and defend the United States of America," Trump ranted after the Senate moved a War Powers resolution forward on Thursday.
"Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski, Rand Paul, Josh Hawley, and Todd Young should never be elected to office again," he insisted. This Vote greatly hampers American Self Defense and National Security, impeding the President's Authority as Commander in Chief. In any event, and despite their 'stupidity,' the War Powers Act is Unconstitutional, totally violating Article II of the Constitution, as all Presidents, and their Departments of Justice, have determined before me. Nevertheless, a more important Senate Vote will be taking place next week on this very subject."
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-war-powers-resolution/
2).
Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) said he had placed a hold on all Department of Homeland Security nominees after Secretary Kristi Noem repeatedly declined to testify before the Senate.
"I'd simply like the Homeland Security Secretary to respond to what are now two requests by the chairman to come before the committee," Tillis told Semafor correspondent Burgess Everett, "and that's the reason why I placed the blanket hold before the shooting yesterday on anything related to Homeland Security until such time as she does that."
Tillis' decision to block DHS nominees apparently came before an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent shot and killed 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis. Noem suggested that Good was a domestic terrorist just hours after she was shot to death in her car.
https://www.rawstory.com/thom-tillis-kristi-noem/
Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) said he had placed a hold on all Department of Homeland Security nominees after Secretary Kristi Noem repeatedly declined to testify before the Senate.
"I'd simply like the Homeland Security Secretary to respond to what are now two requests by the chairman to come before the committee," Tillis told Semafor correspondent Burgess Everett, "and that's the reason why I placed the blanket hold before the shooting yesterday on anything related to Homeland Security until such time as she does that."
Tillis' decision to block DHS nominees apparently came before an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent shot and killed 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis. Noem suggested that Good was a domestic terrorist just hours after she was shot to death in her car.
https://www.rawstory.com/thom-tillis-kristi-noem/
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